• Korean Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
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• v.24 no.6
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• pp.91-98
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• 2023

Construction accidents result from a combination of factors, including both the actions of workers and the safety conditions on site. Despite advancements in enhancing construction site safety, there remains a gap in comprehending the cognitive processes underlying workers' unsafe behavior. This paper investigates and validates a qualitative model that delves into the potential causes of workers' unsafe actions by examining their cognitive processes, employing a system dynamics approach. By analyzing the interplay of various loops within this model, it offers both short- and long-term safety strategies for managers intent on minimizing unsafe behavior among workers. Specifically, safety managers should prioritize increasing workers' awareness of hazards through education and fostering a positive safety mindset. Moreover, they should task frontline supervisors with directly addressing and rectifying instances of unsafe behavior by workers. Lastly, construction safety managers ought to formulate safety strategies that take into account the cognitive states of workers to mitigate any adverse consequences of biased safety management. The outcomes of this research contribute to our comprehension of methods to enhance hazard perception among workers, curtail unsafe actions, and ultimately reduce construction accidents from a cognitive standpoint.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute Of Construction Engineering and Management
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• 2007.11a
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• pp.1043-1048
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• 2007

사업의 지속적인 성장을 위해서, 생상성의 향상은 필수적인 요소이다. 건설업은 노동집약적인 산업이고 그래서 건설기능인력은 생산성에 영향을 미치는 가장 중요한 요인이다. 그러나 매해 건설기능인력은 감소하고 있는 추세이다. 따라서 이러한 문제는 반드시 교육체계와 직급체계의 제안을 통해 관리되어져야 한다. 이 연구의 목적은 기존의 문헌고찰을 통하여 현재의 교육체계와 직급체계의 연관된 문제를 찾아내고 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위하여 교육체계와 직급체계를 제안하는데 목적이 있다. 또 이러한 교육체계와 직급체계의 타당성 검증을 위하여 건설 기능 인력의 설문조사와 건설 실무자의 면담, 조사를 통하여 타당성을 도출해낸다. 좀 더 세부적인 사항이나 결론은 아래의 글에서 알아보기로 한다.

• Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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• v.17 no.3
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• pp.15-22
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• 2015

The risk assessment carried out on the construction site at the beginning of the implementation depends on the subjective judgment of risk of general contractor and subcontractors, whose opinion about frequency and intensity of risk is different. In this paper, research the awareness of general contractors and subcontractors about process of risk assessment at the construction site and its effectiveness. Researching of the main factors "frequency", "intensity" which determines the degree of risk gives the opportunity to find an option for improving the effective implementation of risk assessment.

• International conference on construction engineering and project management
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• 2007.03a
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• pp.398-406
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• 2007

Constructing high buildings is a global trend, and skyscrapers for residing are also increasing. But a period of works for finish construction is different depending on a company while a period of works for frame construction of skyscrapers for residing in the country is regular when considering a difference of a method of construction, and the increase of repeated construction for high buildings and number of related process for finish construction are stressing the importance of improving productivity through construction management and plan for works. Because there are many compositive factors affecting productivity other than technical factors, we should intensively study the way of improvement and prevention preferentially through analyzing factors affecting productivity. So in this study, we present important management factors for making systematic strategy and plan for improvement of productivity by finding factors affecting productivity depending on the degree of importance unifying factors affecting productivity of plan factor(internal factor of construction process) and management factor(outer factor of construction process).

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Building Construction
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• v.14 no.6
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• pp.597-604
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• 2014

In order to match the paradigm shift of a construction company for obtaining competitive edge, it is necessary to introduce newly an innovative educational method in the architectural engineering domain. The objective of this study is to adopt team-based learning, whose effectiveness have been proven in other domains, and to examine its applicability in architectural engineering education. To verify its effectiveness, a questionnaire survey of 39 attendees was conducted at the end of a term. As a result of that, academic achievement of students was higher than that of previous teaching method. In the future, team-based learning adopted in more subjects of the architectural engineering will contribute to improve the academic achievement of students by extension, to raise up the competent practitioners.

• Korean Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
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• v.2 no.1 s.5
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• pp.98-106
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• 2001

The Ministry of Education and Human Resource Development has implemented the Construction Cost Saving Policy since 1998. The National Universities and Regional Education Committee have been required to follow the details of the Policy in constructing educational facilities in their jurisdiction. While the Policy has positive effect on construction cost saving of the entities, it has been criticized from the beginning of the Policy implementation because of its negative impact on project quality, education quality, trust in the public sector construction business, and solvent operation of the private construction companies which build the educational facilities in the entities. The research aims at investigating the pitfalls of the Policy and suggesting more reasonable approaches that can satisfy both the governmental entities and the private companies.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Building Construction
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• v.12 no.4
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• pp.433-441
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• 2012

Accompanied by Chinese strong economic growth rates and development of demand for the construction industry, Chinese construction industry has already become one of the largest construction markets in the world. Unfortunately, the frequent occurrence of safety incidents on Chinese construction sites is a large obstacle for other countries construction companies seeking to enter the Chinese construction market. This study aims to analyze and compare the safety awareness of Chinese and Korean construction workers. Our research showed that the safety awareness of Korean construction workers is far higher than that of their Chinese counterparts, particularly in terms of the efficiency of safety education and the observance of safety rules. The development of a safety management plan based on these results will contribute to reducing the frequency of accidents on Chinese construction sites.

• International conference on construction engineering and project management
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• 2009.05a
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• pp.263-271
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• 2009

This study reveals the status, perceptions, and future directions associated with green building within construction-related companies. A survey research method was used to capture current experience levels and capabilities of companies with regard to green construction. Expectations and perceptions about the future of the construction industry with regard to green building were obtained from construction-related companies recruiting from the Myers-Lawson School of Construction at Virginia Tech from 2006 and 2008. The findings of this study support the growing importance of green building as a component of the whole construction market and provide a benchmark against which to measure future changes in the industry over time.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• v.35 no.4
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• pp.395-409
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• 2023

Long-span suspension bridges have tunnel anchor systems to maintain stable cables. More investigations are required to determine how closely tunnel excavation beneath the tunnel anchor impacts the stability of the tunnel anchor. In order to investigate the impact of the adjacent tunnel's excavation on the stability of the tunnel anchor, a large-span suspension bridge tunnel anchor is utilised as an example in a three-dimensional numerical simulation approach. In order to explore the deformation control mechanism, orthogonal tests are employed to pinpoint the major impacting elements. The construction of an advanced pipe shed, strengthening the primary support. Moreover, according to the findings the grouting reinforcement of the surrounding rock, have a significant control effect on the settlement of the tunnel vault and plug body. However, reducing the lag distance of the secondary lining does not have such big influence. The greatest way to control tunnel vault settling is to use the grout reinforcement, which increases the bearing capacity and strength of the surrounding rock. This greatly minimizes the size of the tunnel excavation disturbance area. Advanced pipe shed can not only increase the surrounding rock's bearing capacity at the pipe shed, but can also prevent the tunnel vault from connecting with the disturbance area at the bottom of the anchorage tunnel, reduce the range of shear failure area outside the anchorage tunnel, and have the best impact on the plug body's settlement control.

• International Journal of Concrete Structures and Materials
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• v.10 no.4
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• pp.527-537
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• 2016

This study evaluated the mechanical characteristics and durability of porous concrete produced with a cementless binder based on ground granulated blast furnace slag (BFS), fly ash (FA) and flue gas desulfurization gypsum (CP). As a result, the void ratio was increased slightly from the target void ratio, by 1.12-1.42 %. Through evaluating the compressive strength, it was found that the compressive strength of porous concrete with cementless binder decreased in comparison to the compressive strength of porous concrete with ordinary Portland cement (OPC), but the difference was insignificant, at 0.6-1.4 MPa. Through the freeze-thawing test to evaluate the durability, it was found that the relative dynamic elastic modulus of porous concrete with cementless binder decreased to 60 % or less at 80 cycles. The result of the chemical resistance test showed that the mass reduction rate was 12.3 % at 5 % HCl solution, and 12.7 % at 12.3 and 5 % $H_2SO_4$ solutions.